Lindsay Vonn's SI Cover Is Not Controversial. Here's Why.

The "controversy" surrounding this month's issue of Sports Illustrated is not US skier Lindsey Vonn's butt-in-the-air pose, but rather Oh-my-God-that-suit-is-ugly.

Google "Lindsey Vonn" and the current top hit is from Chicago Breaking Sports. In the article, kinesiology expert Nicole LaVoi-ces her concern about the "sexualized" pose and the objectification of female athletes. 

Unfortunately, every other article on LaVoi's personal website is devoted to the "controversies" of misogyny in sports. But what about the guys who waste spend all their time trying to grow Dwight Howard-esque boulder shoulders?

Vonn deserves the SI cover, exactly as it is, for obvious reasons. The facts:

• Everybody has a butt. Vonn's is better than most. Not because she starves herself, but because she is an exceptional athlete with tremendous dedication to her sport.
• Female athletes need attention in media. As LaVoi mentions, SI doesn't give a lot of covers to women. This is a step in the right direction.
• It makes the Winter Olympics a little more interesting. Put an attractive face (besides the Flying Tomato or Apollo Ohno, for cryin' out loud) with the event and see if it doesn't get more viewers. Ice dancing Figure skating has done it for years.
• She's wearing more clothes than all Swimsuit Issue covers over the last three decades combined.

She is one of the best in the world at her sport, and she also has very fortunate facial features--not unlike Michael Phelps, whose nipples we've seen way too often, chiseled though his torso may be.